Spawn
“said Keith Todd, adjusting the volume control on the Dolomite’s cassette.
Penny Walsh giggled and moved closer to him, gazing out through the windscreen at the rain clouds which were gathering ominously. It was already dark but the impending storm seemed to bring a heaviness to the air, gripping the small car in a black velvet fist. The headlamps were off and the only light came from the sodium lamp about ten yards behind then down the lane. Flanked on both sides by trees and high bushes, it ha...d wide grass verges on either side and it was on one of these that Keith had parked the car.
“And you’re really going to buy this off your dad?” Penny said, patting the passenger seat.
“Once I get a job, yeah,” Keith reassured her. “He doesn’t mind me borrowing it until then.”
Neither of them had jobs, both Keith and Penny had left school at sixteen, just two years earlier. The ritual of signing on had become, as it had to hundreds of thousands more of their generation, a way of life.MoreLess
Penny Walsh giggled and moved closer to him, gazing out through the windscreen at the rain clouds which were gathering ominously. It was already dark but the impending storm seemed to bring a heaviness to the air, gripping the small car in a black velvet fist. The headlamps were off and the only light came from the sodium lamp about ten yards behind then down the lane. Flanked on both sides by trees and high bushes, it ha...d wide grass verges on either side and it was on one of these that Keith had parked the car.
“And you’re really going to buy this off your dad?” Penny said, patting the passenger seat.
“Once I get a job, yeah,” Keith reassured her. “He doesn’t mind me borrowing it until then.”
Neither of them had jobs, both Keith and Penny had left school at sixteen, just two years earlier. The ritual of signing on had become, as it had to hundreds of thousands more of their generation, a way of life.MoreLess
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